Urinary Tract Problem/ comment on IC

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I am a bit behind on my TCM digests! I agree with everyone about

sending this patient ASAP to MD for immediate urinalsis--esp with

blood now in the urine, yipes! Any fever?

 

However, always keep interstitial cystitis in the back of your

mind. It presents like a UTI, but after a urinalysis will come back

clean. So with UTI sx but no detectable infection, IC is may be the

cause, and after this patient gets proper lab tests done, you will

have a better idea of what's happening.

 

Most traditional treatments for a UTI will make IC worse--that

includes antibiotics, certain chinese and western herbs, cranberry

juice, etc. So unless someone has a hx of frequent UTI's, I believe

a urinalysis should be mandatory before prescribing AB's. Would

prevent alot of chronic long term pain and disease!

 

 

Chinese Medicine , " mojavecowboy "

<mojavecowboy wrote:

>

> Hello:

>

> I wonder if anyone might comment on the following report from a

> woman in her late fifties. She has seen an acupuncturist who found

> nothing wrong, and who referred her to a doctor of western

medicine.

>

> The woman says that the condition most likely does not stem from

> sexual contact as she has been abstinate for many years.

>

> " Regarding my health problem, it started maybe in February or

early

> March, one day I felt the terrible urgency to urinate, with a

strong

> burning sensation, I was in an area with not bathroom so I had to

> hold it until we got to a place I could use one, but still, that

> urinate need was persistent and constant, I had to run to the

> bathroom after few minutes of being there and just for drops or

> urine. It lasted some days, maybe a week, treated with garlic and

> cranberry juice; the need was not so urgent after I started the

> treatment and less and less until it went away completely.

>

> " But it returned a few days after, mildly though and different, it

> was more a light burning sensation and itch around the vagina, not

> internally though, and still I felt a mild need to urinate also. I

> treated applying garlic oil to the affected areas, the sensation

> went away relatively fast, within the hour i would say, then a

> couple of days later came back in the same way, and has been so

> since then. "

>

> The woman has recently reported that blood now has appeared in her

> urine.

>

> Helpful comments and suggestions welcome.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Jack Sweeney

>